Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-02-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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The son of the Duchess de Galliera
probably has the finest collection of post
| age stamps in the world. 1t fills 800
volumes and has cost him more than
$3.50, 900
| Another craze over the supposed I'M
told hi den treasures of the renowned
Captain Kidd. This time the Cape Nav,
| N. j.. people have been smitten, and a
certain portion of the marsh of one of
the near by island is being carefully
searched.
1t is said by contemporary that game
called gossip" played tn the old
carte de visite' photographs, Is having
run now. You shuttle and deal them
out, and then every one in the party tells
, everything mean that can be thought of
/ about the perso represented in the pho
tograph.
A female compositor of Galveston, a
member OF the printers union, married
non'union compositor and then tried
to get him to JOIN the order. He re-
fused and the union voted boycott, in
which the wife anticipated, having left
her husband and begun proceedings for
/ a divorce.
| To produce eggs in desirable quanti-
Ties during the cold weather, tho fowls
must be furnished with good strengths
eniug, egg producing food The breeder
should arefully guard against feeding
them fattening food of anv kind, for an
abundance of fat and good health are
not generally found together.-N. Y.
"Poultry" Bulletin.
The artesian we'll at the Consumers
! Ice Works, on Michigan street, New Or
| leans, in which water was struck on
Wednesday when 700 feet deep, is now
throwing out 200, 900 gallons per day Of
perfectly pure water. The stream rises
2j feet above the surface. The new
we'll solves the important problem Of
furnishing supply of pure water to
this city, which is greatly needed, as it
depends almost wholly upon the cistern
water for drinking purposes.
There are some queer people in Ches-
ter county. 1t will be remembered that
the Governor appointed l.. c. Moses to
| fill the office of Sheriff, made vacant by
the death of tae elected official, Moses
is Democrat. An Oxford resident of
the same political complexion made a
bet last week with representative of
the opposite belief that the Senate would
confirm the nomination. If he loses he
will give calf to the other, while if he
wins he is to receive marble headstone.
| What contrast-calf versus head
stone.
On Race Point, Cape Cod. there used
| To no hall f1pn hot
mournfuly toll it whenever it was set
gong. The bell was under cover, but
projecting from the house was q long,
nicely balanced lever with big sponge
on the outer end. There was little
roof over the sponge to keep the rain
off, but when fog came on the mois-
ture would saturate the sponge, and the
| weight bearing the lever down would
start the machine and set the bell to
| tolling. If the fog soon disappeared
the sponge dried out and the lever stop
ped the bell.
The Richmond "Whig' tells this: :
Sergeant Smith took possession of the
silk rope made by c. j. Brown for the
hanging of Thomas j. Cluverius. This
rope was made by Mr.. Brown for the
execution, on the condition that it be
returned to him after the hanging. This
was done, and Mr.. Brown opened store
with the hangmans cord as stock. Small
bits of the rope were sold at 10 cents.
The sale was Drisk, but Mr.. Brown did
not relish his position. Sergeant Smith
also thought his action distasteful to the
people, SO took the rope and paid Mr. q.
Brown for making it.
The panther over which the people of
Groveland, ILL.,, and vicinity have been
excited for several weeks, and to kill
which several hunting parties have been
organized. has just been shot and killed
short distance above the city by Ed.
| A. Crandall. 1t crossed the river on the
ice several DAYS ago. and had been seen
by persons in the northern outskirts of
the city, but nobody got a shot at it I'M
! til Crandall succeeded in bringing it
down. He fired heavy charge of buck
shot into it. The animal was 5 feet 4
inches long, and weighed s. pounds. 1t
probably escaped from menagerie.
Advices from the capital of the Chi
nese Empire say that Christian Chi
naman has petitioned the Board of Cen
sors against the construction of railways
in China. He asks that the two exists
ing railways be destroyed and that the
construction of railways be never al
lowed anywhere in China, in order that
the we 18th of his country may not flow
to foreign nations. If China, however,
must have railways, let her, he says,
build them herself The petition, it is
satisfactory to learn, has had no effect
The writer of it has travelled in Europe
and the United States and is credited
with selfish motives
Reading Clerk HUM entered the hall
of the House of Representatives at Har'
risburg on Tuesday night, hia face as
red as posy with the biting ais which
he had encountered on his way up the
hill. See here, Voorhees,, said he to the
Resident Clerk Of the House, I'm look
ing for man. YES said Voorhees,,
you look as if you'd seen man. Mr..
HUM looked trifle offended, but pleas
nntlv smiled. NO OF that kind of a
man, he said. T'm looking replied
HUM, for prophet Voorhees, seemed
puzzled. what do you mean said he
I'm looking for the democrat who five
years ago told us it would be cold day
when Beaver would be inaugurated Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. I'll be blanked
if he wasn't the seventh son of seventh
son. If this amt cold day I'd like to
| know
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